Blogging is the New Graduate School

Gen Y Doesn't Like Blogs

Wait a minute, I'm confused. Did I miss something? I thought Gen Y's claim to fame was a natural affinity for everything Web 2.0. Yet, here we have the number one Gen Y booster in the world on the number one anti-Boomer site admitting that none of hi…

Is Gen Y Sleazy

Or just free from constraints? Annie Goodstein complains that a young Joni Mitchell would not be pretty enough to be a pop star today. She points us, by comparison, to Avril Lavigne, almost topless and talking dirty in Blender. Avril is looking good th…

While I think it would be a rewarding venture to start a blog, I don't think you should expect everyone to just run to your blog on a regular basis. I get the bulk of my information through alerts from places like digg or an igoogle page filled with new stories. While I am taking in more information, I may not always want to be reading up on a specific employment blog for people my age. What you are doing is great, but as had been noted many times, our generation likes information fast, but not everyone is up to speed on rss feeds nor do they want to check multiple websites everyday to keep up with things.

Hey, just came across this from the top posts of 2007.
That's a sad insight you provided about people not reading blogs. Blogs are a indeed a great way to 1) share your expertise, and- perhaps more importantly 2) gain a deeper expertise.
For several years, I've had a personal blog, where I rant, or put up short stories from time to time. But I've always been interested in politics, and just recently, I started a blog in order to sort of 'force' myself into learning more about politics.
And as far as encouraging others to read your (or any) blog, I think SJS makes a good point about rss feeds- thanks to igoogle, I've made an internet start page with the rss feed of about 10 blogs on it. It's great because some of them update only once or twice a month, so I don't have to keep checking them; instead, I just check one page, and see what I need to check on!
I've got a few friends that majored in journalism, and I keep on advising them to blog, because (although I don't have a deep understanding of what journalism is) it seems to me that blogging is just a sort of grassroots journalism. With the additional benefit of the fact that you can submit "letters to the editor" almost instantly, and your potential audience is worldwide!

This is exactly why I have recently taken to blogging. I can understand why these people don't frequent your blog. They're not interested. Conversely, I feel very interested in the topics presented on this blog as well as other blogs like Penelope Trunk's, which is why I've become an avid reader of them. But not everybody is looking to beat the curve. Some people are content remaining uninformed, and some have other pursuits which will lead them to their own sort of successes.

After only a few days of blogging, I feel a dozen times more educated, and aware of the job market I will enter in less than a year. It has become an important part of my life and my career, and I expect it remain one for some time to come.

Blogging isn't a hobby. It's a lifestyle.